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The Burbs

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The Burbs
Detroit BRT Proposed Map

Bus Rapid Transit is the new reality for Detroit

John Cruz
December 19, 2011
Featured, Maps, The Burbs, Transportation
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In the city of Detroit this holiday Season, the city council isn't taking a vacation. In the city of Lansing, the state of Michigan is reviewing the books for Detroit. When they are done, the city council ma...
Halloween

Night of the Living Burbs

John Cruz
October 29, 2011
Community and Neighborhoods, Featured, The Burbs
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When I was a kid, I grew up in a subdivision in Clinton Township, Michigan (a northern suburb of Detroit). Despite being part of the urban sprawl that is the greater metro United States, this neighborhood was a...
Spirit of Detroit banner. Photo by John Cruz.

How does one rebuild “trust” in Detroit?

John Cruz
September 28, 2011
Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs
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Detroit is at a crossroads. We can take the opportunities we have been given and make something great, or we can continue to squabble away our future because we simply cannot get along with each other. The Detr...
Kohls Parking Lot

Parking lot gardens? Why not!

John Cruz
August 26, 2011
Featured, Sustainability, The Burbs, Transportation
One of the ugliest sights of American suburbia is the sea of concrete which provides parking for all of the merry patrons coming to shop. Adding insult to injury, the parking lots are a gigantic a monument to p...
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